First Pics with New 7D

Maybe you can invest in the 55-250mm IS. Pretty nice lens and very affordable. Look it up if you do not know about it. I switch right away when i had your lens in place of this one. And even after you have your L, you will probably still use this lens because it is small and light.

I do mostly wildlife photography so the 55-250 would be going down in size, hence the need for the 100 - 400 lens. If I could afford it, I would even go 500 mm or more, but unfortunately, budget doesn't allow this to happen at this time. Maybe sometime in the future I may look at the 55 - 250 as a general purpose lens, but for now, I'm sticking with the purchase of the 100 - 400 mm lens. For really far reach purposes, I use a C5 spotting scope from Celestron, which acts as a 1250 mm @F10. Not the most ideal solution but it works quite well for the most part!